The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The proceedings in the House of Commons to night are looked forward to with much curiosity. Little surprise is felt that a stripling like Lord Maid stone, with the rashness natural to his years, should seek to embark the House in an inquiry which must redound so little to its character and credit, and which must waste the time which ought to be devoted to the public business of the country ; but much surprise is felt that the more reflecting of the Tories should not at once have seen the folly of an inquisition into the proficiency of the Members of the two Houses of the Legislature in the use of hard words towards their op ponents, and have confined within the limits of pru dence this scion of the house of Winchelsea. What practical end can be answered by an inquiry like that on which the Tories have so madly entered ? Ever since we recollect Committees of the House of Com mons they have been deemed the very worst of all con ceivable tribunals. Old George Rose used to say that he would not load his soul with a participation in the guilt of downright robbery which was constantly practised in committees on private bills ; and it seemed to be ad mitted on all hands, when the now Lord Littleton en deavoured to improve these tribunals, that there was no conceivable degree of corruption and injustice with which they were not chargeable. With respect to election Committees, it seems to be understood as well as anything can be understood that they follow no pre cedent.; are governed by no fixed principles ; and that it would be the very height of folly to expect in any case a decision favourable to a Liberal member from a Committee of which the majority are Tories, and vice versa. As it is sufficiently evident that an oath is no obstacle in the way of a majority, it is to be regretted that, in addition to the injustice, they should be obliged to be guilty of what might be avoided, the taking superfluous oaths. When an improvident relative of Dr. Franklin borrowed a hundred pounds from him, and was hying hold of a piece of paper to write an acknowledg ment for it, the Doctor seized the paper and secured it in his drawer, observing that was worth but a half penny, but there was no use in throwing away even a halfpenny. Oaths have been most wantonly sported with in England, and the Legislature seems to be at last aware of its error in depraving the national con science by useless swearing ; and it were well if the , Members of the Legislature themselves reflected that they are men with the failings and weaknesses of other men, and - avoid exposing themselves to the temptation of committing an injustice which oaths may serve to cloak over but cannot prevent. Perjury in a Court of Law is a word of some ineanine,', not on account of the oath, for the man who would tell a lie would not hesitate to swear to it, but on account of the punishment which follows detection and conviction. But the Member of an Election Committee who lends himself to an unjust decision knows that, as Sir Robert Peel said of a Peer in Parliament, he is re ,-nonsible only to himself and God. The records of Pa: - Ytament are full of criminations and recriminations Of perjury. George the Fourth was accused by seve ral Bishops and temporal Peers of violation of the co ronation oath in assenting to the Catholic Emancipa tion Bill. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were accused of advising their Royal Master to commit perjury. The Bishop of Exeter accused all the Catholic Members of the two Houses of per jury. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have been accused of violating the oaths taken by them at their consecration. to .maintain the rights and liberties of the Church Mr. O'Connell has charged the English and Irish gentry in election Committees with perjury. There is. in short, no end to these charges. Some people are wonderfully nice in their distinctions. They would laugh at you if you should for a moment sup pose that they would be simple enough to refrain from availing themselves of their majority to perpetrate injustice ; but perjury—oh : they repudiate the very idea of perjury—guilty of perjury, not they !' But the injustice—that is quite another affair. If Mr. O'Connell has charged the English and Irish gentry in Committees with injustice, that would have been nothing. These gentlemen would have deemed that charge a mere compliment to their party zeal. But then, perjury— horrid thought ! Let the foul slanderer be dragged before the House. But pray, good gentlemen, what do you pro pose to do with him ? Would you, if you had the power, treat the world to a repetition of the scenes 'which gave so much importance to John Wilkes ? Do you mean to disfranchise an Irish constituency because _Mr. O'Connell will name words offensive to ears po ? Are you anxious to ascertain whether Mr. O'Connell or the Bishop of Exeter be entitled to carry off the palm for proficiency in hard language ? We ourselves would back the Bishop not only against Mr. O'Connell, but against any drayman in London ; and in this case he has the merit of having set the example in this becoming warfare. Whether the House ca gain by the course on which Lord Maidstone has e tered may well be questioned ; but there can be n question that much amusement will be afforded to a 'who are indifferent to the estimation in which ti }louse is held, and wish merely to witness a se to between Mr. O'Connell and the Bishop. W trust all the Tories have not taken leave their senses on this occasion. Some Member of weight and character in the House—ought,. instantly after Lord Maidstone's motion has been made and seconded to rise for the purpose of putting an end to this unseemly trifling. Lord John Russell's motion was merely conditional. His Lordship of coarse expected that the more reflecting Tory Mem bers would in the interval between Friday and Monday prierail with Lord Maidstone to abandon his foolish motion. But should the motion be made and seconded, the matter should be instantly quashed—by a mode of proceeding sufficiently obvious to Members acquainted with the forms of the House. We can see no end or object in suffering the matter to proceed. For the credit of Parliament let the Bishop of Exeter be suf fermt.to proceed uninterrupted in the career in which he has attained such distinction ; and instead of wasting time in inquiring whether men sworn to do jut tice, who commit injustice, ought to be pronounced lty of perjury, let means be devised for having re turcrs tried by a tribunal better qualified to decide cor rectuty, and less tempted to decide unjustly, than the present Election Committees.—Morning Chronicle. The motion to be made this evening by Lord Mai stone is one wihch does credit to the decent pride, th upright feeling, and justly offended honour of tha uncorrupted nobleman. When such an adventur as Mr. Daniel O'Connell, at a tavern meeting of whic he is himself the hero, tells the people of this count that " Ireland is not safe from the Irish and Scot gentry," viz., from the " perjury of the Tory poll ticians,” it is nothing more than that description scurrilous calumny which might be expected from s :foul a quarter. But when he proceeds a little furthe sand ores a more pointed / signification to his words b asking 'whether it is not horrible that these same Eng lishand Scotch gentry " should be perjuring them selves in the Committees of the House of Commons ! —that " the time is come when it should be pro claimed boldly that there is foul perjury in Me Tory Cornmitteesof the House of Commons"--that "he does not mince the matter ; his words may appear in the public press—he hopes they will. Ireland is not safe from the perjury 9fthe English and Scotch gentry, who take oaths according to justice, and vote according to party"--it becomes, we say, a young nobleman un .hacknied in political depravity—a young " English gontiman" of a manly and intrepid race, who has himself been a member of those very Committees against the British portion of which the Irish Papist vociferatem, :o come forward with his formal protest, and his personal complaint, that he should himself be made the subject of such imputations, and to wring from the slanderer either a more specific charge, fit matter for a regular and searching inquiry, or an aban donment of that indiscriminate one which has been , mai le, or, failing the latter course, to fasten upon the Lisle Agitator such a construction of the lanluage -I)lsys § :b him as may become a suitable prelimina - y to / eition, whether or no the learned anti-Saxon has ~, --...,Ki ,n been guilty of the grossest " breach of pr ivi ,4`.' ilege." , ::: _llr.l.)an:i O'Conn e ll': life to some p sordid and selfish jV!. , - , rro .tlye.L _ ere are now no l ess t h an two petitions pend ' ------_, 1 tiy ; ', in ea of which that learned libeller takes a strong Aita r , wmakinterest—of these, Youghal is one—to be de ........4.„ ' c it i by a Committee, the majori • ty of which consists of " English and Scotch" gentlemen. Dublin is an other case of such petitions, wherein the chief per sonage complained of as an usurper of other men's political rights, and of a seat to which he has, we be lieve, no more just title than to Queen Victoria's Crown, is the individual Mr. Daniel O'Connell. If, therefore, the Crown and Anchor speechmaker can contrive by boisterous abuse and blackguardism I to bully the English and Scotch Members of the above Committees out of their conscientious views of the evidence produced by the respective petitioners, and into a return alike inconsistent with the claims of those suitors for redress, and with the free dom and purity of election, in the name of which they make their applications to Parliament, he, the said Daniel, will have gained all he looks for, and made, in the eyes of such a man, no unprofitable bargain. He may indeed, by this " flare up" of effrontery, effect even greater things than he did in the last Parliament, inasmuch as he then could only manage to defraud the rightful Members for Dublin of their seats for two sessions, or from 12 to 14 months ; whereas by frightening the " English and Scotch " Members of the Dublin Committee from acting as their conscience dictates, he may be lucky enough to " bag" the representation of Dublin during the entire Parliament. This we take to be the true secret of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's virulence against the British aristocracy, which is oftener with him an affair of cal culation than of impulse, and belongs, like most trans actions of his wicked life, to the category of scheming falsehoods. If the gentlemen of England and Scot land feel that this man has offered an insult to the gentry of both realms and on both sides of the House, they will leave a record of their indignation upon the journals, which the Irish adventurer may long regret that he has invited. But the richest source of satis faction this evening is expected to be the fulfil,nent of Lord John Russell's pledge to bring forward a motion against the Bishop of Exeter for some offence in the nature likewise of a breach of privilege, we suppose, by that Right Rev. Prelate, on account of expressions said to have been used by his Lordship in a charge to the clergy of his diocese, delivered above two years ago. The gist of the Right Rev. Bishop's observation was, so well as we can remember, that those Roman Catholic members of Parliament who had supported by their votes the measures framed for the spoliation of the Established Church had violated the oaths taken by them as Ro man Catholics, by which they engaged to do nothing that could injure or impair the Church. Now, there is nothing so much to be desired by all friends of the Church of England—nothing to be so longed for by the Bishop of Exeter, or by one and all of the innumer able enemies of Lord John Russell, as that lie should bona fide keep that most spiteful, pitiful, disgraceful, anti ludicrous pledge. Only let him attempt it—only screw up your courage, my slipperkia of a Lord, and try a second fall with the Bishop of Exeter, if You have yet recovered from the b! vises of your first encounter. It is the soreness of those bruises that still smarts and galls the little-minded Secretary of State. " Let me have—oh, let me have—ona drop of sweet revenge on that tremendous Bishop !" What, then, does the feeble spirited Home Se cretary ? This Lord, who licks a Repealer's foot, and indemnifies himself by snarling at every loyal man in the country—this Lord, we say, stupified out of his right senses with terror, lest O'Connell, if unsupported in his outrage upon the aristocracy of Great Britain, should run desperate, and leave Ministers to take care of themselves, turns to the servum pecus behind the Treasury bench for encou ragement, and, hacked by their yells, has the reckless folly to give notice, that if the foul-mouthed Irishman who still sits for Dublin shall be called to account be cause of his insolence to a race of gentlemen, no one of whom would condescend to acknowledge O'Connell for his equal, he, Lord John Russell, that Cabinet Minister whose office most peculiarly binds him to pro tect the Church of England, and whose social station ought to make him deeply sympathise with the " gen tlemen" of England against the aspersions of O'Con nell—he, Lord John Russell, actually threatens, that if any one shall dare to stand up for the gentlemen against their libeller, he will make common cause with the Papist libeller, and do his best to sacrifice an English Bishop I Mind, that Lord John Russell did not attempt on Friday evening to justify O'Connell's words, or to deny that they called for the sharpest visitation from the great body of English and Scotch representatives, composing five-sixths of the Imperial House of Com mons. He did not dissuade Lord Maidstone on the ground that there was any reasonable or constitutiona I objection to that Noble Lord's motion—not at all— but " Don't touch my agitator ; or, if you do, whether right or wrong, here goes, right or wrong, a shot at your Bishop." Very well—so let it be. Lord John Russell is aware before this time how much Dr. Phill potts regards his threat, and what sort of pains he has taken to deprecate and prevent Lord Maidstone's mo tion ! His Lordship knows by this time into what a panic he has thrown the formidable Prelate ! The Noble Secretary we acknowledge—nay, we insist— must go on—he must execute his contingent obliga tion. He must bring forward before this House of Commons, which has not existed more than four or five months, a motion for breach of privilege, the sub ject matter of which was of and concerning some Members of another House of Commons, in existence two years ago, but has long since been defunct. The exhibition will be a delightful one, and the beauty of it is, that Lord John Russell cannot, as a man or as a Minister, flinch from his engagement. The double baiting of bruin and his monkey bids fair to make me morable sport.— Tinges. THE BALLOT SICULICERS AND THE MINISTRY. —The constituents of Sir Henry Parnell, Sir John Campbell, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir George Grey, and the other Members returned by Liberal majorities, who skulked from the Ballot division, must regard the conduct of their Representatives with shame. These men wanted courage either to stick by the Minister, or to vote as their duty to their constituents demanded. They trembled for their seats—they durst not offend Lord John Russell ; so they sneaked out of the House. Lord Melbourne has fitting supporters. The Duke of Wellington would have served them according to their deserts, and dismissed the whole set the next day ; but Lord .Nlalbournei not only allowed his su balterns to desert—he winked at the'opposition of his Master-General of the Ordnance and one of his Trea sury Lords. Mind that, electors of Dundee. Mr. R. Steuart disregarded Lord Melbourne's blandishments and Lord J. Russell's frowns. He had the courage and the honesty to vote for the Ballot ; and he keeps his place as well as his promise to his constituents. Contrast his conduct with that of your Representative, the Right Hon. the Paymaster of the Forces. Sir Henry Parnell retains his office; but what have be come of his principles ? of his original compact with the Dundee constituency ? of his virtual engagements even at the last general . election ? Th at h e i nten d e d to persuade the Dund e e simpletons that he should be at liberty in future to give the Baallot question his support, none can doubt who reads the following passages from his speeches at the last election. To the Political Union he said : " There was no one present who was a more sincere friend to the Ballot than he was. He had always been so. Hs con sidered that the arguments in favour of it were sound and con vincing ; and he had no hesitation in saying that the arguments adduced against it were not so. He would not enter into the question at large. The system of corruption and intimidation which prevailed made it quite clear that the elective franchise was rendered ineffectual fur the purpose intended ; and his opinion was, that it was a great mistake in a Liberal Ministry to oppose it. He considered that the security and existence of a Liberal Government depended on the Ballot being car ried. * * He had been exerting himself with the Ca binet to induce them to make the Ballot an open question. He had not succeeded, it was true. Reesons were given him for refusal, which he hoped could no longer be urged." On the hustings he said— " There is no man more sincerely in favour of it than I am : will go so far as to state, that I consider the existence and per manence of a Liberal system of Government depend on the carrying o 1 the Ballot. All the arguments in favour of it are, in my opinion, good ; and the arguments against it are not worthy of regard. I do assure you that I will use every exertion to induce the Ministry to mako it an open question. I trust that, as the circunistance.s of Ministers ere changed, this and other great questions will be made open questions." And so the Ballot is an open question —t o those mem bers of the Government who dare to treat it as such. Again we refer to Mr. Robert Steuart's and Sir Hussey Vivian's votes. But the electors of Dundee have for their Member a gentleman who rates place at a higher value than Mr. Robert Steuart, and who will not risk it--small risk indeed !—for the sake cf maintaining his own principles, and giving his constituents the advan tage of his vote on the question which of all others they deem most important. Fortunately, Glasgow was re presented by " honest William Bentinck" and Mr. Dennistoun ; Greenock by Mr. Wallace ; Perth by Mr. Kinnaird ; but the other principal towns in Scot land—Edinburgh, with Leith, Dundee, and Aber deen—were ♦oiceless on that great question. None of the English skulkers are so notorious as Sir Henry Parnell ; but the conduct of each and all of them is so pitiful, that their expulsion from Parliament would be most desirable. It is not merely for their pre ference of place to principle and duty on this one ques tion ; there is, of necessity, an end to anything like confidence in them. One lie damns the credit of a witness, and one act of political meanness destroys the public chara c t er o f hi m w h o i s guilty of it. He is thenceforth estimated by a low moral scale. He is re garded with suspicion, and brings discredit on the party with whom he acts, instead of furnishing a gua rantee for the honour and high principle of his asso ciates. In this view of the case the injury which Sir H. Parnell, once a man of unblemished public reputation, has done to himself by his miserable inconsistency and evasion of may on the Ballot question, is irreparable. Once it would have been hazardous in Lord Melbourne to have quarrelled with him ; but the Premier may dis miss the Paymaster to-morrow, with no more detri ment to his Ministry, as far as public opinion is con cerned, than if he sent Lord Dalmeny, and half a score such, to the enjoyment of their private leisure. —Examiner. We regret to perceive from a report, and from ad vertisements which will be found in another part of this day's paper, that an ultra-Radical of very small influence in the Borough of Marylebone, has so far prevailed over the good sense of Colonel Perronet Thompson, as to induce him to declare that he will go to the poll, against the favourite and reforming can didate, Mr. Ewart—in other words, that failing in his own person to secure a majority of suffrages, his friends will not only play into the hands of the Tory party, but actually support the Tory candidate. We have some portion of respect of Colonel Thompson, both in his literary and political capacity ; but truly if Colonel Thompson will allow himself to be made the cat's-paw fof anv one, we must for ever relinquish our confidence in him. We tell him again, that he has no chance of 'representing the borough of Marylebone—that every i nfluential voter is in favour of his rival, Mr. Ewart, land that, if through his opposition the Liberal cause 'shall be lost, there are no execrations too loud or deep ,which he will not both receive and deserve. That Ewart's election is safe, notwithstanding the Tory- IRadical party of which Mr. Murphy and Colonel Perronet Thompson are the representatives, we have little doubt—but a great question ought not to be placed in a state of doubt. Men of Marylebone, are you to vote for a good Liberal who has every chance in his favour, or are you to vote for a Tory represen tative ?—lf for the former, vote for Mr. Ewart—if for the latter, vote for Colonet P. Thompson, and you will secure the election of Lord Teignmouth !—Marn ing Advertiser. Without nicely inquiring into motives, and, indeed, without inquiring into them at all, we have given Lord Brougham credit for his recent exertions to obtain that liberty and justice for the negro bondsmen of our West India colonies which the people of Great Britain • supposed they had purchased of their task-masters when th©y paid 20,000,0001. as a consideration for what appears to be, up to this time, but the inoperative parchment of the Emancipation Act. Lord Brougham, as one of the Ministers of the Crown at the time when ! that Act passed, we need haidly observe, was a party Ito the compa c t b e t ween the people of Engl an d an d the planters, and is bound to take all the neces sary steps which the present Ministers, his former colleagues, have so sadly neglected, to have the terms of the compact fulfilled, and to prevent the cruelties and degradation of slavery being the portion of the apprenticed labourers. Very consistent with this ob -ject, and, indeed, naturally arising out of it, are the efforts of the ex-Lord Chancellor to induce an indo lent, vacillating, and tricky Government to take effec tual means to put down the abominations of the foreign slave trade, carried on by our dear " allies," more especially the wretched and demoralised Spanish and Portuguese nations, the latter of which has received nearly 1,000,0001. of our money, under the false pre tence of putting an end to it. As to Lord Palmer ston, he has been too much engaged of late years with his friend, the beaten " hero of Hernani,” in slaughter ing the brave republicans of the Basque provinces for the benefit of the worthies of 'Change-alley, and in degrading the Royal Marine force of Great Britain to foment the horrors of civil war—we say Lord Palmer ston has been too much engaged in those dis graceful exploits, of late years, to allow him any time to attend to the great duty of compelling, as Fo reign Minister, the fulfilment of those stipulations for the suppression of the slave trade into which Great Britain had induced foreign nations to enter at an im mense expense to herself. But, while Lord Brougham pursues these laudable objects, we must warn him against the error into which he appears to be car ried, rather by a blind zeal than an enlightened energy, of attempting to put down one sort of systematic bar barity by establishing another. The stealing the living body of a fellow -creature, and loading it with the chains of ignominious servitude, is one of the most serious offences that man, more especially civilised man can commit against God and nature; but the strangling or decapitation of a human being on the scaffold by rope or guillotine is also a barbarous and disgusting abuse of power—the power with which a State is armed for the correction, coercion, or refor mation of its offendi ng subjects, but not for thei r ex termination. It will be recollected that one of Lord Brougham's string of resolutions respecting both the foreign slave trade and colonial slavery, which were proposed and withdrawn the other night in the House of Peers, was as follows : " That an humble Address be presented to her M a j est y , earnestly beseechin g h er M a j esty to take immediate steps for negotiating with the Governments of Spain and Portugal, and obtaining the concurrence of the Governments of France and the United States in such negotiations, with a view to declare the trade in slaves piracy, wherever he same is car ried on ; and making those wh o pers i st i n i t li a bl e to a ll the pains and other consequences." In reference to that part of the above resolution which suggested a negotiation between the Crown and Foreign Powers, for the purpose of declaring the trade in slaves piracy, the Duke of Wellington made the following observations : " Their Lordships were aware that when that House inter fered by poc w uot a rhw y aete o er f lsy an Address to th e C ro wn, to interfere with eliForeign alwaysa act meaningon any defined, o fi n p t a oh r ra t dt i particular House at s en u oa b s j d e ot c uo t that b , twwh hata t ethv: subject cs hr oo w uwi a nd s was called upon to propose to Foreign Powers. He begged, therefore, to ask what was meant by piracy? There was no doubt I what the meaning of this country was, and it must be the wish lof that House that this crime should be considered piracy ; but then, what was the punishment to b e i n fli cte d on the subjects of this country in foreign countries, in France, Spain, Portugal, and the United States, and what was the punishment it was supposed those countries would permit to be inflicted on their subjects, if brought here and found guilty of this crime of piracy? These were questions their Lordships ought to de fine before they proceeded to vote an address to her Majesty, calling on her Majesty to propose to other Powers to confer with her in declaring that this crime should be considered as piracy. The Hon. Baron had stated that in the course of the last year a considerable alteration had taken place in British legislation with respect to this crime, it being now punished with transportation for life, the punishment previously having been the passing of sentence of death. lie should like to know, therefore, how this crime was punished in France, in Spain, in the United States, and in Portugal whether it was in accordance with the legislation of this country ; whether those persons agreed with this country as to punishment, as the law stood last year, or as it stands this year, upon this parti cular subject." Nothing could be more correct or business-like than what the Duke proposed, which was to ascertain what piracy meant in other countries, before proceeding to call upon the Crown to negotiate with their Govern ments in order to have the slave-trade declared to be " piracy," and made subject to the pains and penalties thereof. Now, certainly, the capital punishment which reviously was annexed to the crime of piracy by the English law was abolished by a statute which came into operation the Ist of last October. That statute is the Ist Victoria, c. 88, and it repeals the punish rnent of death for the offence, except in such cases :as the act of piracy is accompanied with an assault to commit murder, or where the offender stabs, cuts, or wounds, or does any act by which human life i; endangered. The Bill for altering the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1838 punishment of piracu was one of a number of Bills for amending and mitigating the cri minal law, which received the support of Lord Brougham last Session. His Lordship went much further on that occasion than merely giving a cold as sent to the amelioration of the law within the compa ratively narrow limits to which those Bills confined it. His mind expanded beyond the boundaries within which the principle of enlightened justice was cir cumscribed by Lord John Russell's legislation. Fol lowing in the track of Lord Lyndhurst's more lumi nous intellect, his mind, which had previously taken many uncertain flights, some forward and some back ward, over the field of criminal jurisprudencce, arrived at the same conclusion as that of his learned predeces sor on the woolsack---which was that punishment of death ought to be limited to the one offence of actual murder. This principle had been submitted to the t t d he b House of Commons, in the shape of an amendment to Lord John Russell's Bills, by Mr. Evart, and nega yGaovmeirsnemraebnite majority influence wasajorityofon used to defeate!notsvithstan ding theall l e motion by whipping in Members, and although fifteen Government placemen voted against it, so that, virtually the motion was carried by a ma jority of 14. The numerical defeat of the principle was to that extent at least, a moral triumph. In spite of this decision in the Commons—in spite of Lord Lyndhurst's declaration in the Lords—in spite of his own declaration adopting the principle embodied in Mr. Ewart's motion, and sanctioned by the great judicial experience and splendid talents of that Noble ' and Learned ex-Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham has proposed that the slave-trade should be put down, by declaring it to be piracy, and that the capital penalty for that offence should be restored ! . Let it might be supposed we in any respect mistake or misrepresent the Noble and Learned Lord on thie point, we here quote that part of his reply in the House of Lords which bears on this subject, as it appeared in our Parliamentary Report. " Let their Lordships look," he observed, " at the strange anomaly in respect to the carrying on the slave-trade. If the offence were perpetrated, as it often was, in a river or in the chops of the river, as at the settlement of Fernando-Po, it was not deemed piracy ; but if a man carried on this infamous traffic only three miles to the westward, then it was an act of piracy. Now, the slave-trade must of necessity be accompanied with personal violence, and he, for his own part, never had been of opinion that the capital punishment for the offence should be done away with, and he should have no objection to restore that state of the law." With his declaration, that' capital punishment should be reserved for murder alone fresh in our recollection, the passage above quoted would have excited our astonishment if we had not long ceased to wonder at any inconsistency of Lord Brougham. If the Wing of his genius be strong it is at least as erratic as it is vigorous. Round most of the great public questions of the day it has fluttered i n very eccentric circles, and has perched on very dif ferent, nay opposite conclusions, and with equal con fidence on all. This is perhaps the consequence of i n verting the pr . oper pri nci pl e o f i nte ll ectua l di sc i p li ne by setting;spurs_to the fancy an d re i n i ng i n t h e judg ment ; but, whatever may be the cause, the effect is a variety of inconsistencies and contradictions, of which it may be, at the moment, persons of the excitable and vo latile temperament of the Noble and Learned Lord are u nconscious. Lord Brougham describes it as a strange anomaly, that acts which at sea are considered as c onstituting piracy, should not be treated as piracy when committed upon rivers or at the mouths of rivers. The fact is, the proper definition of piracy is robbery, or depredation on the high seas. Our common law recognises no other sort of piracy. Our statute l aw has frequently made innovations on the common law, and often for the worse. Almost all the statutes of blood which we have exerted ourselves to hare ex punged from the statute-book were innovations upon the comparatively mild and merciful provisions of our , ancient common law. Lord Brougham would have the definition of piracy made more extensive, and, in the same degree, more confused than ever it was be fore. His remedy for the evil of slave-trading is compendious enough—it has, however, the objection of being, like the evil it is intended to suppress, a very • barbarous expedient. We believe it would, as a remedy, be a very ineffective one. We reeol lect having seen, not long ago, in a Van Die , man's Land paper, a report of a trial and conviction of four men—transported convicts--for piracy, in having taken possession of a vessel or the hull of a vessel in Macquarrie harbour, for the purpose of ef fecting their escape from the penal settlement. Their offence seemed to us, although the men received judg ment of the capital charge of piracy, to be no piracy at all, but a mere larceny of the thing stolen. We be lieve they have not been executed, for we observed that the Judge (Pedder) had some doubts, which the law officers of the Crown did not seem to entertain. We trust we shall never see Lord Brougham's law of piracy have any o th e r exist ence th an i n hi s own i magination. Tu Lord o statute-bookr England dß r u want htaoms diminished argued, n e ei c ds a h p ei tal instead aeenactmentsdnl o i g f h b t e e n i ne still people e c ou r e pp a loe s n e o d f 0 n the Lase of forgery, that capital punishments, by revolt ing the minds of jurors, tended rather to the escape of the guilty than to the repression of the crime. So it was with the act which made slave-trading by any subject ofthesßri ti e.w.,ap. 3, which w shCrow c n,a capita l offence. an NVe allude act t oco we n s s a i t a e v a e n and amend trade. i t o re latin g ; lam t o boasts t of fe having aboli tion r h d e B 1 a r o w n s (71 originally had a hand in making slave-trading a capital felony, and what good did that do ? D • uring all the years in which the offence was capital many thousand instances of the crime occurred, as the history of the Mauritius attests, and no execution for the offence, we believe, ever took place. The fact is, the very severity of the punishment defeated its own object, as is always the case when passion and notreason legislates against crime. We wish complete success to those who are labour ing to effect the suppression of the slave-trade, whe ther carried on by our " allies," in almost open viola tion of the treaties which we have with them, or worked clandestinely by British subjects in vessels fitted out even in the ports of England. We greatly doubt, however, that so desirable a consummation will ever be attained under a Government so truckling, temporising and dishonest at that which at present sits like an incubus on all the energies of this great country. But under any circumstances we cannot con sent that, for the ostensible object of suppressing the slave-trade, repudiated barbarism shall be restored to the statute-book, and our hatred of an inhuman and disgusting traffic be signalised by inflicting upon our civilisation the disgrace of an inhuman and disgusting law..—Morning The motion of Lord Maidstone to-night will be a resolution of severe censure upon Mr. O'Connell. It is considered doubtful whether Ministers will venture to oppose the motion, as, in case they should do so, there is great probability of their being left in a mino rity. It is said that several Whigs who give their general support to the Administration have determined, out of regard to their own characters, to stay away. With respect to Lord John Russell's silly threat of re taliation, the rumour at the Clubs last night was, that some of his Lordship's Colleagues have insisted upon his Lordship's backing out, as he best may, but at any rate that he must back out. The rumour has a pro voking air of probability about it.—Morning Post. It is stated that the Earl of Essex ie about to marry Miss Stephens, the vocalist.—Essex Herald. Can this be true ? Lord Essex is about 81 years of age. A Noble Earl, who has long passed his grand cli macteric, will, it is rumoured, shortly be united to a distin guished vocalist, sometime retired from the stage, residing in the ♦icinity of Connaught-terrace. The venerable Peer, whose Countess, from whom he had been long separated, is lately deceased, awaited but the freedom of widowhood to offer Mi ss his hand. THE REGENT'S PARK.—One of the three Persian Princes who ♦isited London about two years since, was one day riding with Mr. Baillie Frazer through the Regent's Park, when he was so struck with its beauty, and the gay crowds around him, that he exclaimed, " Ah, well / what a sad pity it is, after all, that men must diet" " Ay, so it is, Prince," re plied Mr. Fraser; "but you remember there is a heaven—a paradise to come." " Ay," said he, " there is, and that is the consolation, there is another world. But wallah these places go far to make a man forget it." In this month the mole begins to excavate his sub terraneous galleries in pursuit of worms, which are so in stinctively afraid of their enemy, the mole, that the least motion of the earth causes them to drag their slow length above ground. ELECTION COMMITTEES, (Continued from our First Edition of Saturday.) YOUGHAL. Mr. HARRISON then said that he was mistaken in his appli cation, inasmuch as the order was obtained on Friday by his friend . (Mr. Close), and the document would be here on Tues day. ..... _ .. _ . . _ THESSI6IR said the thing was impossible without the Mayor's going back to Toughall, for he could not part with the custody of the keys of the chest in which the charter was kept. Besides, the order obtained on Friday did not specifi cally name the charter. He quoted several cases from the Law Courts to show that supplementary orders would not be given to compel witnesses to go back for documents which had not been mentioned in the notice originally served on them to produce papers, &c. Mr. HARRISON contended that the technical rules of the Law Courts were not applicable to the proceedings of Com mittees of the House of Commons. It was not necessary for the Mayor to go back t• Ireland for tLe original charter, be cause he had with him in London two copies of the Charter in his possession here, one in Latin, in the precise words of the original, and the other a translation. If these were produced and admitted as authentic, his (Mr. H.'s) purpose would be attained. The Committee could not ascertain the right of the freemen to vote without having the Charter before them. The Committee at length deliberated with closed doors, and on the re-admission of strangers, the Chairman stated the de cision to be that the Charter should be produced. It was ultimately agreed that an attested copy should be put in, and the registry having been proved, the Committee ad journed to 11 o'clock on Monday (this day). BELFAST COMMITTEE. The votes of John Martin and John Lenahan were struck off. The votes of Andrew Gallaher and Alexander 111'Kenzie were allowed. The Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock. BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER.-It is a curious circumstance that Sir James Graham and the Baronet who has taken compassion of him in his distress are perhaps the only Baronets in the Uaited Kingdom who enjoy their titles by a re-grant—the same titles being also held by the lineal descendants. The lineal possessor of Sir James's title is, we understand, Sir Robert Graham, a wine-merchant in the City, Sir James being descended from a younger son, and the lineal possessor of Sir John Owen's title is a Sir Hugh Owen. SLAUGHTER OF DOGS AT BUENOS AYRES.- Buenos Ayres papers received on Friday state that the chief police magistrates there had given orders to the constables to destroy all the stray dogs they should encounter in and near the city, Between the Ist and 13th of November last the ears of no fewer than 434 victims were accordingly forwarded to the principal station. POTATOES.—The price of this indispensable article of food has risen greatly since the first appearance of frost. Great quantities have been rendered unfit for use from the se verity of the weather. In some parts of the country where, at Michaelmas last, the price was 3s. per sack, it now varies from ss. to is. The poor feel the increase very severely The frost has been again interrupted by a thaw, which has continued for two days, but which is too slight to make much impression on the ice. The severity of the weather is not palpably abated in the country ; and owing to the heavy fall of snow in the south, the London mail has been unusually late for the last three days.—Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. HYDROPHOBIA.—Some time since a child at Much 'Marcie, in this county, about twelve years old, was bitten by a dog very justly supposed to be in a rabid state, and means were taken to prevent the dreadful consequences too often attendant on the absorption of the rabid virus into the system. We understand, the legs being punctured in se veral places by the dog's teeth, thorough ablution, cupping glasses, and caustic, were resorted to, as the excision of the bitten parts was found impossible, and the parents refusing to suffer the amputation of the limbs ; the poor child was, in compliance with a most foolish and ignorant custom, also dipped. No symptom of the fatal malady appeared till the 31st tilt., when the usual distressing prognostics were apparent, which rapidly increased, and on the following Friday the child was released from her sufferings by death. We have heard a man was also bitten by the same dog; if so, it must he much consolation to him to be informed, that in numerous instances persons have been bitten by rabid dogs, and escaped infection from the virus. A case occurred within a few miles of this city some years ago; a child was seized by a rabid dog, which threw it down, and bit the limbs in several places ; a man hastened to the child, when the dog bit him in the arm, the poor fellow after a few months died of hydro phobia, the child escaped, and is now, we believe, a stout man. In cases of bites from rabid dogs, when incision is difficult or impossible, or indeed in every case, we strongly recommend the application of a mixture of equal parts of pure and concentrated nitric and muriatic acids to the wounds, which should be opened with a probe, so as to insure the acid penetrating to the bottom of the puncture, and the action upon the parts to be kept up for some time; the puncture may then be laid open where possible, and discharge from the wounds promoted, often washing them with a strong solution of chloride of soda. Dr. Buisson states positively, that when the symptoms of decided hydrophobia have appeared, placing the patient in a vapour bath about 126 or 127 of Farenheit has effected a cure; we have not heard of this suggestion being in any case tried in England.— Hereford Journal. NEw SOUTH WALES.—FiIes of Sydney papers have reached us to the middle, of October, by the Enterprise. The necessaries of life continued abundant, and prices mode rate. Emigrants, on their arrival, met with immediate and advantageous employment ; aid, notwithstanding the arrival of several vessels from this country, the demand for labour continued unabated. These Papers contaia evidence of the permanent and increasing prosperity of the colony, and mani fest the best spirit on the part of the colonists to aid in carry ing into effect the important measures under the consideration of the Home Government for the improvement of the colony, of which they had received intelligence. The death of his late Majesty, and the accession of our present most gracious Sovereign, had been communicated through an indirect channel. WILL OF THE LATE EARL OF ELDON.—The late Earl of Eldon's will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on the 16th inst. by the three executors—the present Earl, Mr. Cross (the Master in Chancery), and Mr. Alfred Bell. It is of great length, filling 74 sheets, closely written. There are likewise seven codicils, neither (except one, which is holograph) ♦ery short. The will is dated the 24th of June, 1836; the codicils bear date in 1837 ; the last is dated December 21, 1837, less than a month before the Earl died. The property is sworn under 700,0001. in the province. The bulk of the will is occupied with ♦ery careful devises of the real property in the counties of Dorset and Dur ham, trusts, limitations, recoveries, &e. The principal devisee is Lord Encombe (the present Earl), the testator's grandson, for life : then to his son; in default of children the property is left, under ♦arious conditions and limitations, to the daughters of the late Earl, Lady Frances Jane Bankes and Lady Elizabeth Repton, and their families. The family of the latter takes a less extensive benefit than that of the former, the reason of which the testator declares is, that Lady Frances Bankes has a larger family, and may expect to have more children, whereas Lady Elizabeth Repton has but one son, and is not likely to have more issue. The trustees of the property are Master Cross and Mr. Alfred Bell. There are various small legacies, and amongst others the late Earl's coachhorses are bequeathed to Lady Frances Bankes ; with the direction that they are to have a free run of the grass at Encombe. The Earl also bequeaths his " favourite dog Pincher" to the same lady, with a clear annual allowance of 8/. to buy him food. At the end of the will is a schedule of various articles, such as portraits, watches, his Chancellor's robes, Peer's robes, presents made to the Earl from public bodies, and the like, which are bequeathed to different indi viduals. The codicils contain alterations and modifications of the devises in the will, except the holograph dated in Sep tember last, which gives a legacy to James Smith, the Earl's servant, whose character and services it eulogizes. This in strument is written on a sheet of note-paper, in a tremulous hand. The signature to the last codicil bears no resemblance to that in the will, arid appears like the uncertain writing of a blind person, or one whose hand was guided. All the instru ment: are sealed with the Earl's coat of arms on black wax. On Wednesday evening an accident, unattended with any serious personal injury, but resulting in the destruc tion of some goods and a considerable detention to several trains, occurred on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, at Collinsgreen, nearly opposite tho grand stand on the New ton racecourse. At this place one of the waggons in a train of goods proceeding from Liverpool to Bolton broke an axle, and the cotton bags with which the waggon was loaded were thrown off upon the other line of rails. The Grand Junction half-past six o'clock train, from this town to Birmingham, reached the spot immediately afterward, and the engine run over the bags which were lying across the Elie. The engine, the tender, and one or two of the carriages, were thrown off the line : one of the axles of the mail carriage was brokon by the shock, and three bags of cotton were set on fire ; but though several persons were severely bruised, and others stunned for a time, we understand no very serious personal in jury was sustained. The train which left Liverpool at half past five o'clock for this town came up soon afterwards,an d signals being made, the train stopped, and, as well as the seven o'clock train from Manchester to Liverpool, was de tained upwards of half an hour before it could proceed. During the gale on Thursday last the John Stamp, from Bombay to Liverpool, belonging to Newcastle owners, went to pieces off the coast of Newry. Twenty-one of her crew were on board, seven of whom were drowned. About 2,000 bales of cotton have been saved from the wreck. Captain Bain, the master, was expected in Liverpool on Sun day evening by his friends, who had prepared a grand supper for him, anticipating his return on that day, from the vessel having been telegraphed off Holyhead. It is not known whether the Captain is saved. —Liverpool Telegraph. On Tuesday afternoon, a shocking accident oc curred at the seat of the E ar l o f D erby, at Knowsley. The game-keepers had returned from a shooting excursion, and were about laying by their guns for the day—some of them were in the new room appropriated for the servants, when suddenly they heard a loud report from the gun room. Immediately a Person came in to say that Scotch Jack (one of the Knowsley gamekeepers), had shot Timothy. Timothy shortly ex pired. His heart and stomach were shockingly mutilated, and the blood from the wounds was great in the extreme. De ceased and the person by whose hand he met his death were on the best terms, and the accident was caused by Scotch Jack's holding the gun in the bend of the arm, the muzzle down ; but another gamekeeper coming up, and seizing bold of him, by accident caused the piece to rise, and the friction of the arm upon the trigger caused it to go off. —Liverpool Paper, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 24. ROBURTSON V. WYLDE. This was an action for libel. The plaintiff was secretary to the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and the defendant a bookseller at Charing-cross, and publisher of the Railway Magazine.—Lord Chief Justice TINDAL summed up ; and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Fzii. 24. NR. WARTA'S CASE. Mr. James Prescott, known by the name of " Warde," the actor, late of Covent Garden Theatre, applied on his petition from the Fleet Prison, praying to be discharged under the Act. The creditors numbered 46. Several had entered opposi tion, but none appeared. The debts in the aggregate amounted to 5,469/. 3s. 2d. There were some without consideration, and others more than once entered. The bona fide debts from 1831 were 2,9754. 17s. sd. There were three debtors amounting to 1971. Os. 9d. The two stated to be good were Mr. Bunn, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, and Mr. Levy, the proprietor of the Victoria. They were for arrears of salary. The cause of the insolvency was set forth as having been occasioned by debts due at the time Mr. Wards quitted the King's Bench Prison, in 1831. to law expenses, and to a speculation in an intended theatre in Oxford-street, to be called " The Princess Theatre." It appeared that Mr. Warde's children had been at board ing-school. He said be was a widower. Ho bad been ar rested by Mr. Price, auctioneer, of Chancery lane. Mr. Commissioner HAARIS--.1 see by your present petition, Mr. Warde, that you petitioned this Court in July, 183 1, and was heard in September of that year, when you were re manded for four months from the petition, for a frivolous de fence to an action. The Insolvent admitted that such was the case. Mr. COOKS called the attention of the Learned Com missioner to the last-mentioned cause of insolvency. Mr. Warde had engaged in a speculation which he expected would hare realized a different result to what it had; he had taken the Queen Bazaar in Oxford-street, ii•hich he intended con verting into a theatre ; the premises were taken of Mr. Ham let, the jeweller, and a committee of noblemen and gentlemen was formed to carry the object into operation. Mr. Hamlet had not completed his contract, and the thew* L ad not been opened. The hopes of Mr Warde and the committee were defeated, and he now appeared to be relieved from debts in curred, with a view of erecting the theatre. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—I see you were discharged on the former petition as James Prescott Warde. You state the first cause of your insolvency to be the payment of debts after you left the prison on the former occasion ?—lnsolvent—l had a family of four children, and was confined five months in the prison, I was obliged to incur debts. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—You paid them?—lnsolvent-- Yes, to the amount of 3911. I was fettered to that amount, and have since paid them. _ _ Mr. Commissioner HARI - us—Have the debts in your former schedule been paid?—lnsolvent—No; he was understood to say some had been paid. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS-These were debts, then, in curred after the petition, and before you left the prison ?-1 11 " solvent—Precisely so, Sir. _ . - Mr. CooKE informed the Court that the law expenses had been heavy. There had been a Chancery suit commenced against Mr. Hamlet. - Mr. Commissioner MAARIS—IS it pending ? Mr. COOKS—Yes, it is, Sir; axd I hope an assignee will be appointed to carry it on. It is against Mr. Hamlet, for a specific performance of his contract. Mr. Cresswell was instructed by Mr. Fisher a solicitor, and another creditor, named ?lalcolm, to apply for the assignee• ship. It was expected that sufficient would be realized to pig 20s. in the pound. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—.-ThiS, Mr. Warde, appears 10 have been a large speculation It was stated that 8,0001. was to be raised by debentures. The case was adjourned for a few days, to perfect the notice for Mr. \Verde to be discharged. At the rising of the Court in the evening the consent of Mr. Vincent, the creditor, was procured, and Mr. Warde discharged. On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Payne? the City Coroner, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Charles Hamilton, aged 84, who committed suicide by cutting his hroat with a razor, in a most shockinr , manner. It appeared rom the evidence, that the deceased was a bricklayer. On Monday week he was employed in repairing some buildings at Horselydown, when he fell, and severely injured his head. He was conveyed to the hospital, where every attention was pa id him. On Friday a delirium came on, during which he con trived to get possession of a razor, and noarly severed his bead from his body. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." Yesterday week, a sheep purchased by subscription was roasted whole upon the ice on Hornsea Mere ; those who afterwards partook of it, paid one shilling each; the money thus collected was given to the poor.—Hull Advertiser. During the late immigration of northern birds, a gentleman of this country sh o t a b race o f w ild swans at Barton urf, which he brought down one immediately after the o ther, from his double-barrel piece. —Norfolk Chronicle. During the drifting snow on Wednesday the 17th ult. Mr. W. M. Kent, of Earl Soham, in Suffolk, lost a hogget sheep, which he found in a ditch on Friday, the 9th inst. alive—and strong, considering it had been under the snow' twenty three days, wholly without food, as from its position it was unable to move from the place where it fell in. BOY STOLEN.—On Thursday, Ist inst., John Stewardson, a boy ten years of age, was enticed frem bins home, in Goole, by some sweeps, supposed to be Irish.—Rull Advertiser. INTELLECT.—An old woman connected with the stocking branch of trade in the neighbourhood of Mansfield, was last week in a shop in that town, complaining of the dread ful state of trade and expressing great surprise that it was not better now. On bei n g as k e d on w h at account she expenitl it would have been better, her reply was, that " Now, tie Stocking Change was b urne d d own , w h ere many thons2a2 dozen must have been burned, they were in hopes of gettin few orders to replace 'ern !" A gentleman, a perfect stranger, called upon the Rev. T. East, Birmingham, a short time ago, and stated, that having read the " Missionary Enterprises" with great inure st• he was exceedingly desirous of a:di ng t h e cause of M i ss i on s 111 the South Sea, and presented J. W. with one hundred pounds , saying, that in twelve or eighteen months' time he hoped tc• be able to do much more. LADIES' BEST GOLD CHAIN' . So The weight is given by comparison with the weight of Sovereignly being more easily referred to than if stated in ounces and davits. The quality of the gold is warranted equal to any that is worked into articles of this description. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring Pattern. X s. d. £ B.d • ~ " Same weight as 3 sovs. 4 4 0 S ame we i ght as 6 sous. 7 7 Ditto as 4 sovs. 5 5 0 Ditto as 7 sovs. 8 8 0 Ditto as 5 sovs. 6 6 0 Ditto as 8 sovs. 9 9 0 The following Patterns are One Guinea dearer than the iboYsi, but cannot be made lighter than the weight of Six Sovereign: ; :-- The Cage Pattern. The Chinese Patted rn. The Ring and Bar Pattern. The Victoria Patty :rn. THE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES. The price in gold cases, with vertical movements ...x7: 7 0 Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movement, in double bottomed engine -turned case, jewelled, silver dial, warranted T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith and Jeweller, 47, Cornhill, Len don, (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street.) N.B. Tho Horizontal Construction is particularly for its superior accuracy. reco mmended mitworg BIRTHS. At Trebinshon.house, Brecknockshire, on the 19th in 3 t„ Lb* Lady Elizabeth Osborn, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Hatton-garden, Mrs. Taunton, of a. son. On the 19th inst., the lady of Mrs. W. D. Burnaby, of a son. On the 17th inst., at Woolwich, the lady of R. Daslmand, Esq., Royal Engineers, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Elm-lodge, Ludlow, the lady of J. Dayies, Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. W. Henry Tilstene, of a son. On the 19th inst., in Lancaster-place, the lady of C. E. Michele' Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th inst., in Bolton-row, Mrs. H. Wickham, o f a soni... MARRIED. At Harmondsworth, on the 21st inst., Thomas Henry Wh z iphatil , , Esq., of Li nco l n ' s I nn , b arr i ster-at- l aw, to Elizabeth, daughter o f J. Tillyer, Esq. At St. Alphage, Greenwich, John Taylor, eldest son of th e late John Bracey, of North Yarmouth, to Elizabeth Holden, the s , rcond daughter of Lieutenant De Montmorency, of Greenwich Ha spits', aid grand niece of the late Lord Viscount Frankfort de Aim rency. On the 22d fist., at St. Olave's, Hart-street, George Pergon'Y Esq., of New Loadon-street, surgeon, to Eliza Lensdale, widow of the late G. Ames, Esq., and only daughter of G. Watts, Esq., of Chosen House, Gloucestershire. On the 22d inst., at fit. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Joseph Wool; latt, of Derby, to Hannah, daughter of the late G. Beer, F;sq., Hilton, in the said county. DIED. On the 17th inst., at Halton, Elizabeth, second daughter 'of the Hen. Augustus F. Berkeley, aged 15. Oa the 18th inst., Mr. Horatio Robson, of Piccadilly. On the 17th inst., at Farnborough Park, near Bagshot, Mary, wife of G. Morant, Esq., and daughter of the late Evelyn Shirley, Esq., of Eatington Park, Warwickshire. At Hyde Park-gate, Kensington, on the 18th inst., aged siz weeks, Katharine Stewart, infant daughter of Captain C. Farboo. On the 16th inst., Ann, eldest daughter of Thomas and Ann Manners, of Lambeth, aged 27. On the 19th inst., at Crosby-square, Matilda, wife of Levy Salo mons, Esq., aged 67. On the 14th inst., at Bromley College, Ann, relict of the Ref-. J. F. Bohun, Rector of Depden, Suffolk, aged 72. On the tOth inst., John Roberts, Esq., of Oxford-terrace, in hiS 80th year. On the 17th inst., aged 59, Lionel Thomson, Esq., of Mortimer - street, Cavendish-square. On the 16th inst., aged 20 months, Mary Emma, daughter of Mr. T Niinkworth, of Gutter-lane. At Dorset-place, Kennington, Mrs. Angell, aged 84. On the 18th inst. ' in Grove-road, Mr s . J ac k son , l a t e o f Nor th bank, Re gen t' s - par k . On the 17th inst., aged 59, the Rev. Wm. Bayly, D.D., Vicar of Hartpury, Gloucestershire, and 22 years Head Master of the Grammar School, Midhurat. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Sarah Hariington, of Southanspton.- place, New-road, aged 78 London ; Printed Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No.. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the colt, .ti of i t liddlesex.—Monday, February 26, 1838.